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A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, has unanimously rejected a lawsuit by families of Branch Davidian members who died in a fire during a standoff with federal law enforcement officials...

Several hours into Day 1 of the 51-day standoff between federal law enforcement officers and the Branch Davidians, Sammy Citrano decided the officers must be hungry. He loaded his truck with hot coffee and beef fajitas, drove outside town to the...

February 16, 2001, Friday

To the Editor: Re ''Mr. Danforth's Verdict on Waco'' (editorial, July 25): I disagree that the F.B.I. should ''have been ordered to starve the cult out'' rather than assaulting the compound to bring an end to the 1993 standoff.

July 31, 2000, Monday

John C. Danforth, the special counsel investigating the 1993 tear-gas assault by federal agents on the Branch Davidian compound, today issued a sweeping report that cleared Attorney General Janet Reno and the government of any wrongdoing in the...

For this friendly industrial city of 100,000, whose name many people have come to associate with governmental or religious excess, or both, Friday's swift verdict by an advisory jury in the Branch Davidian civil case brought neither surprise nor...

July 18, 2000, Tuesday

The federal judge presiding over the wrongful-death lawsuit of the Branch Davidians denied the Justice Department's request to throw out most of the plaintiffs' claims today. The government had asked the judge, Walter Smith of United States...

Early this Sunday, a select group of government officials and private lawyers will meet at nearby Fort Hood, the nation's largest military base. For several hours, maybe longer, they will watch an extraordinary simulation intended to answer a...

Six years after David Koresh's strange ministry of God and guns ended in flames at the Branch Davidians' compound near Waco, more questions than answers continue to rise out of the ashes. And the legal battle that has kept the case alive has...